Reagan Says All Aboard

In a whirlwind of high-pressure politics, Ronald Reagan was waging the
most perilous and difficult fight of his presidency. The stakes were
high. If he failed to persuade Congress to pass a deficit-checking $99
billion three-year tax hike, the already swollen tide of red ink in the
federal budget would rise even higher, swamping hopes for economic
recovery and threatening deeper recession. Politically, a President who
seemed to have a magic wand for passing major legislation would have
shown that he could no longer...